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Just released a young galah back to its wild parents and now have a baby magpie here for some TLC .
Still a fluff ball and no damage just shaken after the storm here .
So has heat lamp and am feeding insectivore mixed with warm water . Its jumping about today , full of beans so what now ?

I wont send any more birds to WIRES as they are under staffed here and the last Corella baby spent a soaking wet night outside in a mixed aviary due to it waking up the Joeys in the middle of the night .

Any tips please ? On its care that is ...oh and if your going to be all blah blah blah about wild birds , rehab etc then save it as my only agenda is to keep it alive at this stage and will contemplate its future down the track a little .

Cheers big ears :)
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Good on you for rescuing it. But you will have to do lots of insect catching to feed it. So put out the lamp with a chute for the insects to fall down, and a bucket under to catch them. Put birdie in a mostly enclosed cage, so it can try catching the bigger insects for itself, but initially you get to tweezer feed the smaller ones to it. Have fun, good luck.
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Deb,

I know you have furkids so try some of the dry food soaked maybe with a bit of grit/calcium and vitamin supplement as well as the insects. Good stuff! They are real characters.

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Nice to see you here again Deb.
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October last year my daughter in law had a young magpie handed in to her and I posted the same question, got some good replies in this topic.
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So Deb,
How is the little bundle of fluff going? Please keep us informed (with photos). I had one as a kid and then later in life when I was a butcher, stayed out the back on a perch. Mince meat only is not a good diet. Used to have parent bird turn up at the front door with chicks, opened the door and she/he would bring them in up on the counter for their morning feed and then be gone until the next day. Ah, they were the days. Had a pet crow as well, now they were fun!

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Going good , had a bit of a turn earlier which I think may been a need for electrolites , as soon as it got a drink with Spark it came good .
Thanks for the tips , will it much insects at this young age ? its all fluff still with some wing feathers just opened ?

We feed a pair and their young who come to the front door daily , suspect it may be thiers as their territory is quite large .

Cute little bugger hasnt got a bite in it yet ..fingers crossed if gets a better feed reflex and starts putting on some weight soon .
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Hi Deb. I hope that you are getting to be friends with the magpie so that it begs. I still remember the claws of the last one I saved as I had to force its beak open when it first came to me. The best food advice I was given is to feed soaked kitten food pellets (readily available, high protein, easily stored and a lot easier to catch than insects). If you're going to rehabilitate it then you can worry about training it to catch insects later.
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I noticed earlier on in this post someone suggested grit.
This is not needed as it is a Softbill and does not have a gizzard.
What it will need further on is an occasional cricket etc. apart from being protein and food the
hard outer cases of the bugs act as a pipe cleaner for their digestive system.
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Got a recipe going with lean mince , insectivore , rice cereal , bread crumbs and calcium from the fauna rescue web site and ............. taking it like a boss . Feed reflex kicked in and all . yay :thumbup:
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http://www.faunarescue.org.au/bird-insectivore.htm

Just for future reference folks . This was one of the better pages for recipes etc .
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